Danny Mintz

Assoc. Dir of Safety Net Policy with @codeforamerica. Alum of @LABudgetProject. Tweets are my own.

[Peggy Bailey @PeggyBaileyDC]

House Republicans are reportedly considering a list of cruel policies that would take away benefits from people who are immigrants and their families. https://t.co/XAp6bNS0St

[Ty Jones Cox @TyJonesCox]

It is deeply shameful that some lawmakers, just before the holidays, have decided that people –who are victims of a crime, including children and seniors, should no longer have their stolen #SNAP benefits restored. https://t.co/TNWVrKPc3z

[Danny Mintz @DanRMintz]

@SWBNewOrleans Do you have an estimate of when the payment system will be back up? It's still down when I log in.

[Andrew Cheyne @cheyne_andrew]

Mississippi has some of the worst #ChildPoverty in the nation, and this is how the state used its core cash safety net meant to keep their children from #DeepPoverty. Damning testimony from @ACLU_MS @jarvisdortch:

https://t.co/wZUDB0wYa4

[Food Research & Action Center @fractweets]

“The meal gap is profound throughout America, but rural America gets hit harder because the transportation cost to get the food is higher,” said FRAC's @salaam Bhatti. https://t.co/ysciqAt33T

[Center on Budget @CenterOnBudget]

Only 51.2% of eligible people were enrolled in #WIC during 2021. By enrolling a share of #Medicaid and #SNAP participants in WIC, states can improve overall health for low-income families and reduce striking racial inequities. https://t.co/0nYVl7jfHq

[Nicholas Bagley @nicholas_bagley]

What's surprising, to me at least, is not that the Supreme Court overruled Chevron.

It's that the Chief supplied no guideposts, not even rough ones, for ascertaining when Congress meant to delegate policymaking authority to the agency.

[Center on Budget @CenterOnBudget]

Poverty and child poverty in 2022 rose by largest amount on record in data back to 1967, reflecting the expiration of pandemic relief measures that policymakers allowed to expire. https://t.co/1oSUOVMNWV

[Justice in Aging @justiceinaging]

The Medicare Special Enrollment Period provides a critical opportunity for older adults leaving incarceration to access health care.
https://t.co/JXybfT1YAo

[Danny Mintz @DanRMintz]

@allafarce @USDANutrition "No teeth" might not be exactly right. I do wonder what the threshold is in practice for a state to have a submitted APD rejected.

[Danny Mintz @DanRMintz]

@allafarce @USDANutrition This sort of rhymes with some thinking I was doing on Advance Planning Documents. I was digging into the APD Handbook to see what it had to say about usability—the answer was not much (4 refs in 688 pp). But the APD process also needs teeth for any of that to matter.

[Danny Mintz @DanRMintz]

This isn't to say that the APD process doesn't emphasdize other important things (like the system interpreting policy correctly), but it should also be a requirement that when governments buys or builds technology they make sure that tech works for users!

[Danny Mintz @DanRMintz]

Doing a little spelunking in FNS Handbook 901, which explains the planning process that agencies have to go through to get federal funding for technology for SNAP and other vital food assistance programs.

The 688 page handbook mentions “usability” a grand total of four times.

[Danny Mintz @DanRMintz]

In practice, the APD process largely leaves the question of whether a state system is easy and straightforward to use on the margins.

Usability testing, where it's mentioned, is mostly emphasized late in the game, when changes can be expensive.

[Danny Mintz @DanRMintz]

@FOX8NOLA Without question! They make kids healthier, improve test scores, and take stigma out of the lunch line.

Why *wouldn't* we make sure all of our kids have enough to eat when they're together to learn?

https://t.co/BA3mFKv31h

[ITEP @iteptweets]

Major news: the IRS will make Direct File a permanent, free tax filing option for all 50 states and DC.

In its pilot year, 90% of users reported a positive experience & 94% said they'd recommend it to friends and family.

It's past time to make tax filing easy, fast, and free.

[Chiara Eisner 🎤 @ChiaraEisner]

@BluzlvrRyan Actually, it’s on everyone else, too, because if someone who drinks raw milk w/ bird flu in it also has another kind of flu that is easily transferred to humans, the virus could change inside them to a more contagious form and start to pose a greater health risk to the public.

[Food Research & Action Center @fractweets]

Join us in congratulating Louisiana for providing Summer EBT benefits to their 594,000 eligible children this summer!

[Julie O'Donoghue @JSODonoghue]

I don't know if you've noticed, but @ByPiperHutch is breaking a ton of news this week. :) #lalege #lagov